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Aaron,
Image taken from south coast nsw at my holiday house , so nice dark skies
Scope - Bintel GSO 6” f6 newt ( cost me $299 new)
Mount - Skywatcher HEQ5 Pro
Guide scope - Orion 50mm Guide Scope with helical focuser
Guide camera - ZWO ASI120 MM USB3 camera
PHD2 guiding ( total error around 1.5 ars sec )
Goto - EQMOD , StellariumScope, Stellarium
Frame, focus and capture BYEOS
Canon 600D at prime focus ( no adapters, just straight into 2” dual speed focuser )
Canon 600D sensor temperature was reading 25 deg C
Capture plan
ISO 1600
35 x 2 minute subs
15 x darks
No flats
No bias
Stacked in DSS
Processed in Startools
Attached is another image of M42 taken at my home in the southern suburbs of Sydney ( Bortle 8 skies )
1st Image is a single frame showing all the light pollution
2nd image is the final processed image
Capture plan
ISO 800
40 x 2 minute subs
20 x 1 minute subs
15 x darks
No flats
No bias
PHD2 guiding
Stacked in DSS
Processed in Startools
My little 6” f6 newt is a winner , no coma, no vignetteing , focal length is 900mm, light weight only 6.5 kg. It’s also a great visual scope for DSO’s, Planets and moon
I’m upgrading in April to an 8” f5 newt with an EQ6- R mount to leave down at my holiday house dark site ( I will need a Baader MK 111 coma corrector though for the F5 ) more aperture and longer focal length will enable me to shoot deeper objects
Newts give clean crisp images but you need to keep mirrors clean and collimate them correctly ( no issue for me )
Hope the above information is helpful
Cheers
Martin
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